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Nor does it occur if the nasal or lateral and the follow-

ing stops are not homorganic.

gillga.na [qetqafia] ‘to write’

The palatal affricate /ch/, which patterns with
the stops, does not voice after the nonhomorganic alveolar
/n/. (No examples of palatal /fi/ followed by /ch/ have

occurred in the data.)

jinchu [hinéu]  'ear'

Across morpheme boundaries within a word, voicing
may optionally occur if the voiced consonant and the
following stop are homorganic, unless the word stress
occurs before the voiced consonant, a restriction not

applying within single morphemes. Examples:
mam. pa [mampa] ‘his mother' mama '‘mother' -pa 3p possessive
jan sa.:tan.ti [sa:tanti] ‘we will not say to him'
-:tan 43 Future

-ti negative final suffix

The morpheme combination -n.ka-, composed of -na

noun suffix ‘in, on' plus -ka- verbalizer, acts